Allstar Collection/SONY PICTURES RELEASING
21 March 2014
An LA-set rom-com based on David Mamet's genuinely witty 1974 play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago (and the genuinely naff Demi Moore/Rob Lowe re-make that followed in 1986).
The plot sees two chalk 'n' cheese couples break up and make up, ad infinitum. Kevin Hart and Regina Hall are on fine form as raucous, over-sexed, brazenly insecure professionals, Bernie and Joan, (though Joan's off-hand comments about her butch female roommate jar). By contrast, sensitive souls Danny and Debbie (Michael Ealy and Joy Bryant), boast the kind of blank beauty that makes you think of sofa adverts. Together or apart, they suck.
